The bedrock Celtic built their record-breaking league win on last was the defence; we went months without conceding, serious chances for opponents were written up lustily. A large part of the summer shambles was the contrasting nature of our defensive play; Legia Warsaw scored six but they also missed a hatful.
While our results have improved in recent weeks it’s the defensive record which has shown the most marked up-lift. We’ve conceded only twice in seven games, a ricochet against Astra and that goal against Hamilton. By contrast, we kept only a solitary clean sheet in the seven games prior to this run.
On the surface, we looked shaky in defence for the latter parts of the game against Inverness on Saturday, but while there is still work to do, the defence can be encouraged that they are able to withstand sustained pressure – and that they can rely on their keeper, when necessary.
A couple of action points for you:
Magners are donating £18,300 to the Celtic Foundation. The money will go to the four areas the Foundation work: Health, Equality, Learning and Poverty, in proportion to how fans nominate those areas. To participate, tweet @MagnersUK with one of the following hashtags: #Health, #Equality, #Learning or #Poverty.
Magners have been a great help to our campaign to build a fourth CQN school kitchen for Mary’s Meals in recent weeks, so I’m keen we support and encourage this initiative. £18,300 is a huge bonus for the Foundation, they will do great work with it.
The Foundation are full on with their Christmas strategy at the moment. This year money will be split between those who look after the homeless and vulnerable, and individual families – identified by grassroots organisations, to help them buy gifts for kids and put a Christmas meal on the table.
This work is being done in your name, so make sure you’re aware of it.
The inaugural Foundation ladies’ lunch event, Ghirls for Good, takes place on Saturday 13 December, proceeds towards the Christmas Appeal. If you qualify……. Book here.
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Ella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Y7TpNi3x0
HH
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Has JustAFanDan left the Buiding Yet..:(
Or has He Passed….
Erm..???
Out.. Yea Passex Out..
That’ll Work..
Summa
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*WeeFraTheTim on His Soap Box again*
Ha Ha
Summa
Goodnight and God bless all Tims.
SUMMA
How ye doing ya bugger ye, hope everything is well. You must be looking forward to yer summer, shoorly? :-))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
top kat
can I give you a bit of advice? Dont buy one of those fancy electric plug in ones. I did. Then my mum came over for a visit …. one day when I wasn’t home, she decided she fancied a cup of tea. so, she put the kettle on the stove, and melted the damned thing!
Defo cot time now, nighty night.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
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Only 89 Days to the Next Old Firm Game..【ツ】
Thumbs Up
Summa
Dont you just love the wee female doing the CL on Sky Sports?.Awesome.
Bet she thinks the huns are deid,Celtic should pay The Living Wage,Tonev is innocent,RD is doing a great job,and she would like a wee break in Turkey.
Wit a wummin.
918 days since THE LAST OLD FIRM GAME.
Thumbs up.
Heard tonight on SS that last season,a Chelsea player accused the referee of making a racist remark to him.The player had a witness,Ramirez.The case was dropped because Ramirez could not speak English,so could not be a reliable witness.Because no one else heard it,it was dismissed.
Funny that,eh.
Sipsini
There are 2 buttons on your iPad
Press both down for 10 seconds
Put Iad on charge
The apple will appear
Allow 30 minutes or so
IPad will then be rebooted, just like you do with tv or pc.
Wish I could reboot big Erse Wenger..done my accum. Tube
In the case of Tonev..1 game has passed and 6 games to go……does the club just sheepishly come out and say we are disappointed….or is it now time to take on this shower at hamdump..ogilvies and the brysons etc…..or are they waiting for the guy to walk out thus saving them lawyer fees.
topkat
I’m with you. Time to stand up to the RFA.
HH
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DoctorWhatFor..
Yip I was at The Last Old Firm game and Will be at The Next..
Thumbs Up
Summa
Just read a DR story about Lenny, claiming he could come back to Celtic as manager in the future. It was a Facebook link, forwarded by a guy I was at school with 35 years ago who lives in Devon and is looking forwards to the “next old firm game”.
Several things spring to mind as often happens whilst on Cragganmore.
It’s the usual DR undermine the current manager in the approach to a crucial game.
Lenny would only come back if the environment changes I.e personal security and league status
Do I want his relatively unimaginative approach to team selection and tactics?
Is it true, as is rumoured that he regrets his decision?
Is it just Usual DR pish?
I’m still in the Ronny is a breath of fresh although unconvincing air camp.
Maybe, in a different world, out with the Current toxic and unrewarding and unrewarded environment NL could do the job. He certainly deserves it.
HH
Has the bomb dropped?
SKYISALANDFILL
Seems some moonhowlers are having a night off. I wish I was! At this rate I’ll be starting my next shift before I’ve finished this one.
And I could do wi some of those heaters you referred to earlier…
Morning, not long woke, this early rise does me in…heaters on is it cold.
Those Real fans are lucky, Borussia Dortmund have had heaters in their stadium since Paul Lambert played with them, nothing new… !
But this treating fans well will not catch on everywhere..!
Ayrshire is Green and White
Heading off to Stansted soon for my flight to Bucharest. :)
Apparently the taxi fare to Giurgiu and back is approx £50. If anybody wants to share a taxi tomorrow then email me at howgilb@btopenworld.com or tweet @howgilb
Let’s hope for a good result!
HH
Up until the intervention of the Irish Government the repugnant ‘Famine Song’, regarded by the unprejudiced majority as malevolent racism, was accepted, and promoted, by the establishment and the media in Scotland as “just a wee bit of vernacular banter”, albeit it with the occasional ‘Tut Tut’ and a slowly shaking head from the smirking TV pundits. Now in Scotland, Celtic men are being charged, and prosecuted, and some even found guilty without any apparent substantive evidence… and the media promote and laud it as just.
Scotland, a national beacon of inclusiveness, justice and religious/racial tolerance.
Step forward the Bulgarian Government for they’re hanging men and women for the wearing of the Green.
I said, like many others – innocent until proven guilty by proof not hearsay – and that Tonev needed a good lawyer, a latter day Paul McBride QC, I never thought he’d go and get a government too.
The SFA may be brickin’ it again, they better have real proof. I wonder which Bryson they’ll pull out of the closet this time….
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo
18:41 on 4 November, 2014
SFTB,
IF I may.
Yet another fabulous post from your goodself
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
17:11 on
4 November, 2014
Those of us who are conflicted by the official position on The Rangers in Scottish fitba are being opposed for taking a stand on what Rangers fans think and say.
I would say, respectfully, that you have misunderstood the argument.
I have no problems with whatever is believed by the fans of the Ibrox club. I do not try to persuade them otherwise as it would be wasted.
However, I do care about the official position of Scottish football on this matter and, I believe, so should you.
If the SFA and SPL can treat Ranger’s liquidation differently and more favourably than they treated the liquidation of other clubs, then we have an openly biased administrative body.
If the SFA and the SPL, now SPFL, can collude with the media in an official presentation of a liquidated club as having a continuous history, as they do on the SPFL website, then we have an openly biased administrative body.
If the SFA and SPL can conclude a secretive agreement which cannot be disclosed to the general football-following public, then we have a situation wherein corruption can flourish without being exposed to examination.
Whatever happened to “without fear and favour”? Whatever happened to honest and transparent governance? Whatever happened to an investigation into Campbell Ogilvie’s actions whilst at Rangers and his refusal to convey his knowledge of the wrongdoings there to the SFA investigators?
Our club could have gone after the football administrators who were breaking their own rules in all of the above. They could have formed common cause with other clubs who had lost titles and trophies during the DOS and EBT years. They could have conveyed publicly a sense of having suffered loss of income, titles and trophies due to illegal and proscribed practices. They could, even, have expressed a sense of bewilderment at the rulings as they unfolded and stated that justice does not appear to have been done.
If they did any of the above, they have failed to communicate it to the support at large. Various statements, seeming to welcome a Rangers team back, from a variety of club officials, players and shareholders, indeed, give the opposite impression that they are glad to be back to the good old days.
If you are expressing delight about re-entering a bent competition administered by a bent body, competing with a bent and unrepentant competitor, then you are allowing any bending of rules and regulations to be visited upon you.
That is why it matters to me. It needs to be a sport and not a scripted entertainment.
ANY CQNer WHO DOES NOT GET THE ABOVE THEN WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING CELTIC ?
HH
Re-re-post
Good morning friends from a dry, completely clear skied and feeling just a couple above freezing East Kilbride.
I’m sure there was something I was meant to remember, remember this morning…
Said myself the lad needs to lawyer up.
Wonder if our own Stilian had a wee word in the Bulgarian FA’s ear?
Once again a friendly caution to all Tims traveling to Bucharest.
Keep a firm grip on your wallet in busy public locations: taxi ranks, bus stations, street corners etc. There are gangs of Romanies around that have the talent to lift the contents of your pockets, without you having the slightest notion what they are up to.
I was one of Gordon Strachans stoutest defenders throughout his tenure at Celtic.
I remember him telling us things will never change in Scottish football, at the time I thought he was having a go at the authorities but as it turns out he was actually trying to convince people, trying to bring change would be a futile exercise, all the respect I had for him is dead, he is obviously very happy working for a corrupt sectarian racist organisation and has fitted in rather well. Keep your nest feathered by bowing to your master.
Gordon Strachans respect RIP
Overhead heaters?
Can they be UV ones and although some of us enter Paradise pale and peely wally lookin, we will leave the same colour as Kenny Miller?
Nah…..on second thoughts
kdc
06:58 on 5 November, 2014
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Well said mate.
What to do?
The hun-establishments biggest fear is that, they’ll have to face a Celtic support with balls.
Unfortunately, todays Celtic support have been neutered by a compliant Celtic hierarchy.
Big hitters from the Celtic executive level telling us that we wont be sitting at the back of the bus again. Aye.
The huns will be back – cheating – stealing – conspiring – sucking the life oot ye until….Celtic supporters ‘eventually’ realise that, to combat the evil hun-establishment then, Celtic FC has to be restructured and led by folk like Jeanette Findlay and her ilk.
The immediate and effective way to get rid of DD’s plastic Celtic-toy era is not to, buy him out but, to starve him out. Anarchy will have to kick-start this process by fans not investing in the club and at that point…DD and his plastic lackeys will head for the hills as they dont have the belly for the fight. I stress…only if Celtic FC is restructured will the message be clear to the hun-establishment that – NOBODY f#cks with Celtic FC!
Till the above transpires….enjoy being pillaged by the animal huns who only knew REAL justice when the Celtic end chased them off the Hampden pitch in 1980 – that was one of the best days of my life.
Can you believe this by Spiers in the Herala ?
I was at the Bet Butler Stadium at Dumbarton last Saturday revelling in the early evening drizzle when news came through that Celtic had drawn Rangers in the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup.
I couldn’t help myself. The internal surges of excitement and anticipation were undeniable. The first Old Firm meeting in over two and a half years, out of nowhere, was an enthralling prospect.
On no subject, surely, have I written more frequently or copiously than the Old Firm: its passion, its dramas, its poisonous bigotry and the rest.
In that time I’ve also done my fair share of lofty head-shaking and poo-pooing of the fixture…of how Scotland could do without it, of how tawdry and despicable it can be at times.
I’ve delivered all the lines: the A&E scenarios, the domestic violence spikes, the “scar on society” and the rest.
Yep, done ’em all. I’ve got the medal for self-righteous disdain. I’ve utterly deplored the disgusting Old Firm spectacle.
Now I can’t wait for the end of January. I can scarcely keep myself from looking ahead to this Hampden cup semi, having been starved of the fixture for so long. I simper quietly to myself just thinking about a Celtic-Rangers match after this Glasgow derby period of purdah.
They – our moral guardians out there – are flashing up their warning signs already about the match. There’s trouble ahead. There’s yet more poisonous singing to come. A few wives/women are set to take a few blows. Doctors and nurses, like some battle-scarred village on the Western Front, are on a red alert.
If I wanted to I could dig out some of my own stuff about “the Old Firm being a blight on Scottish society”. And there is a lot of truth in all this. The fixture can attract everything that is primeval or bad in west of Scotland man.
Well, hurry up and bring it on. Let’s just get to the end of January right now. Because, in spite of everything, this is a Celtic-Rangers game to cause a sensory overload.
To be honest, I’m not expecting great football. In fact sometimes – not always – the quality of football in the Glasgow derby can be like something out of the Ayrshire Juniors.
This looming cup tie might fall into that category, such is the panting for it, the lusting for the day to arrive. The atmosphere around it is going to be so charged, so hyped, that I’m not sure much football will break out.
Yet the fixture has been sorely missed by hundreds of thousands of people. For some peculiar reason, a few Rangers and Celtic fans make a point of denying this, affecting not to have missed it at all.
This is The Great Lie. In truth, I would say 99% of Celtic and Rangers fans have really, really missed it. The Old Firm match, warts and all, is absolutely engrossing to take in.
You can smell the cordite already. Bring it on. Hurry up.
ALSO…
Gordon Strachan has included Rangers’ 20 year old Lewis Macleod in his 27-man Scotland squad for the games against the Republic of Ireland and England. So, cue the applause and approval of the football nation.
Hang on…what’s this? Some are up in arms and positively splenetic at Macleod’s international call-up.
There are Dundee United fans and Aberdeen fans raging that, while the young Ranger gets summoned, players like Stuart Armstrong and Ryan Jack have been omitted.
First, let’s be clear about this. Macleod is a magnificent Scottish prospect. So whatever the usual arguments are about “if him, then why not him?” there should be no doubting the Rangers player’s merit in being selected.
Yes, of course Old Firm players appear to receive an advantage in terms of international call-ups. That is not to be denied. Stevie May, omitted during a stellar season last year for St Johnstone, once more proved this time-honoured truth.
Personally, I’m not disregarding the talents of Armstrong, Jack, Peter Pawlett or anyone else. I just see, in Macleod, a player whose skill genuinely warrants a Scotland call-up.
Well done Gordon Strachan. It’s a good shout.
Skyisalandfill –
I have no idea whether or not the DR story about Neil Lennon regretting his departure from Celtic and his intention to one day return is a load of made up crap, but one thing I do know . . . I wouldn’t have him anywhere near the Celtic job ever again.
His record in domestic cup ties was shocking and his signing of duds absolutely unprecedented. The amount of cash he squandered on the likes of Bangura, Pukki, Balde and others is incredible and I am sure that is a big reason why he was never going to get near a top English job.
To the angry man from Oz –
I do not hate or dislike NFL as a person. I don’t know him personally and have never met him or spoken to him so am not in a position to comment on the man. The above is an assessment of Neil Lennon the football manager. Nothing more. Nothing less. Thank you.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
07:26 on 5 November, 2014
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Canny understand why some easily-led folk couldny see through Gordon Strachan.
He won 3 League Titles this is true but, he was the start of the Peter Lawwell managerial puppet-show in the dug-out which began the emptying of the stadium.
Used to watch GS from the Jungle – rolling about trying to get our players sent off and, the day that a fan ran on from the Jungle and attempted to attack him – which was not on – I have to say that, this was a case were you could say – “He brought it on himself”
In terms of antagonising bassas who tried to get under the Celtic fans skin was as follows…
John Greig
Alex MacDonald
Wullie Johnston
Gordon Strachan
Mo Johnston
I will alway view the list of folk above as a bag of rats – always.
Neil canamalar, that Spiers article refers to domestic and other forms of violence only to make light of them. The “sensory overload” of the match itself is more important, apparently. A highly irresponsible piece.
Tom McLaughlin
07:38 on 5 November, 2014
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Has Neil mentioned anywhere that he might not be good enough for the Celtic job?
I notice that he disny do modesty.
Canamalar –
Shocking article by Speirs. He is actually trivialising domestic violence as a humorous sideshow to the main event.
Fassreifen,
That was why I posted, so what if a few wives take a smack or two it’s an old firm game, IMO he and the editorial staff should be cleared out on that line alone.
Bring me his head on a plate:
Something inside so strong. You’re a liar and you know you are; the day you admitted being the ‘Prince’ is the day you proclaimed it to the world and it was the day I knew you were nothing more than a pathetic agitator.
Go stalk somebody else, I find you boring. Now get yerself to work.
Good morning CQN, hope this case rightfully blows up on the SFA for an OTT punishment for relying on an anti Celtic match officials report, why have i labelled him anti Celtic ? i worked with him
‘We demand evidence of Tonev racism’ say Bulgaria
05 November
2014
01:08
Published 05/11/2014 00:21
THE Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has pledged full support to Celtic winger Aleksandar Tonev, who was banned for seven matches by the Scottish FA for racially abusing Aberdeen player Shay Logan in a Premiership match in September.
Celtic have signalled their intention to appeal against the ban and have until tomorrow to formally challenge the verdict. If Celtic, as expected, do lodge an appeal it would free Tonev to be available for selection when the Scottish champions travel to Pittodrie on Sunday to face Aberdeen.
“In connection with the punishment for racism, which Bulgarian international Aleksandar Tonev received by the SFA, the BFU would like to express its full support for the player,” the Bulgarian FA said in a statement yesterday.
“We join the position of his club Celtic and we express our readiness to assist in every possible ways…for the truth to be revealed.”
The Scottish FA imposed the ban last Thursday after Dons defender Logan accused Tonev, capped 16 times by Bulgaria, of racially abusing him when the teams met in a game Celtic won 2-1 at Celtic Park.
“This was a very unfortunate case, but the club has accepted Aleksandar’s explanation that he did not say the words that were alleged to have been said and that he is not a racist,” Celtic said.
“We are, therefore, very disappointed by the outcome, and can confirm that Aleksandar will be appealing this decision.”
Tonev, 24, moved to Celtic on loan from Aston Villa in August and has played eight times in all competitions for the Scottish champions.
“Tonev has always been a role model at the Bulgarian national team and he never violated the principles of fair play in the football game,” the BFU said. “He’ll continue to be part of the national team.
“The BFU strongly condemns all forms of racism and xenophobia at football stadiums and will continue its policy of zero tolerance for such events.
“In the case of Aleksandar Tonev, however, we demand to see evidence that he has committed what he’s been accused of. Otherwise, we’ll consider that the punishment is biased and exaggerated.”
Celtic manager Ronny Deila has included Tonev in the Celtic squad for the visit to Romania’s FC Astra in the Europa League on tomorrow night.
“Aleksandar is going with us as part of our squad for the Astra match,” Deila said. “He is very, very depressed. He believes in his innocence, and it’s very hard on him.
“We are supporting him because this is not right. It’s word against word and I believe him.”